Improvement in washing-machines



H. L. VESTA L.

WASHING-MACHINE.

No.178.890. Patented June 20,1876.

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HENEY L. VESTAL, OF KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,890, dated June 20,1876; application filed November 16, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY L. VESTAL, of Knightstown, in the county ofHenry and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure 1is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 isa perspective view, of the framelever.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication ofidentical parts.

A is the tub standing upon legs and intended to receive the clothes andwater. Within this is a concave, B, composed of a series of bars flutedon their upper faces and supported upon the segmental end pieces.

This concave is supported upon the inclined sides of the tub, havlng awater-space below Over this is suspended the quadrant-termed rubber G,composed of two end pieces connected by the bars 0 and supporting thefluted rollers 0 The braces C) connect the end pieces with the shaft D,which has its journals supported upon the suspended boxes E, which arehung between the side pieces of the frame F, from rods fastened to theadjustable cross- .head G. This is suspended upon a screw, H,

passing through the nut in the top of the frame and actuated by a crank,by means of .relation to the concave as the quantity of clothes undertreatment may require. The rods which suspend the boXesE hang by theirheads from the cross-piece G, so as to permit the rubber to riseindependently of the latter. A spiral spring, I, surrounds each of theserods, and presses down on the boxes so as to give a yielding pressure tothe clothes. Motion is communicated to the oscillating rubber by meansof a framed lever, L, the ends of which are slid into recesses in theU-formed piece K, fastened to the braces 0 When desired, the rubber 0may be swung up and supported upon the hinged bar M, which is pivoted onthe top of the tub.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination, the concave B, the oscillating rubber O, and flutedrolls, and shaft D, suspended boxes E, and adjustable cross-head G,whereby the pressure of the rubber may be adjusted, and atthe same timeallowed to rise independently, substantially as set forth.

'In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY L. VESTAL. Witnesses:

BENJ. F. JAMES, JAMES B. BEEMAN.

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